Smoker s stand



Patented July 30, 1935 Howard F. Reichenbach, Waterbury, Conn., as-

signer to The Chase Companies, Incorporated, Waterbury, Conn., a corporation Application September 9, 1933, Serial No. 688,705

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in smokers stands.

One object of this invention is to provide a smokers stand including a funnel and ash container unit removably mounted in a standard. Another object of this invention is to provide a smokers stand including a funnel and tubular ash container unit mounted for varied height adjustment in a standard.

Another object of this invention is to provide a smokers stand as a plurality of easily-assembled units, which can be readily and compactly packed in disassembled form for shipment.

With the above and other objects in view, this '5 invention includes all improvements over the prior art which are disclosed in this application.

In the accompanying drawing, in which one way of carrying out the invention is shown for illustrative purposes:

Fig. l. is a sectional elevation illustrating one form of smokers stand embodying the invention;

2 is an elevation of the smokers stand shown in Fig. l, with the funnel and container unit shown in broken lines in an elevated position;

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the funnel and container unit alone; and

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the upper end of the standard.

Referring to the drawing, it! is a weighted base-member which may be a casting, and provided with a screw-threaded opening H with which the standard i2 may be connected by means of the screw-threaded lower end I3 of the standard being screwed into the threaded opening II. The standard I2 is preferably formed of a metal tube such, for example, as brass, and has an annular enlargement I4 adjacent the screw-threaded end 13 so that when screwed into engagement with the base-member ID, the annular enlargement I4 is adapted to engage against a cover-shell I5 which may be of ornamental character, and hold the cover-shell in assembled relation upon the base It).

The upper end of the tubular standard I2 is provided with a screw-threaded portion 16 having a. plurality of vertical slots H. A clampingring l8 having an internal screw-threaded surface IQ of general frusto-conical form is adapted to screw upon the screw-threaded end It and spring the slotted portion of the end I 6 inward to various sized openings, depending upon how formed of a tube of any suitable metal such, for example, as brass, and in the instance shown is provided with'longitudinal depressions 21 in its outer surface. The lower end of the tubular ash container is contracted and screw-threaded 5 at 22, and has internally threadedly connected therewith a cup-like closure-member or cap 23.

The ash container 20 has a threaded upper end 2 8 the interior of which is threadedly engaged by the threaded lower portion 25 of an ash 10 funnel 25 having any suitable number of rests 2? for holding cigars, cigarettes, or the like.

It will be observed that the ash container unit made in accordance with this invention has an ash funnel 26 with an ash container 23 depending from the funnel and having a closure-cap 23, to form a single unit which may be slid upwardly or downwardly to any desired adjusted position within the standard 52 to bring the rest portions 2'! at any desired height for use.

It will also be observed that by sliding the combined ash funnel and container upward and entirely out of engagement with the standard I 2, that the ash funnel and container may be carried as a unit and be readily dumped to get rid of ashes and the like from the container, whereupon it may be readily replaced back in position in the standard. When necessary or desired, the closure-member 23 can be readily removed from the ash container 20, to aid in emptying the ashes therefrom.

Due to the simple construction embodying a base, a shell-cover thereover, a standard, an ash container tube 20 and funnel 25, which are all readily capable of being assembled and disassembled by a mere engagement or disengagement of a few screw-threaded connections, that the device can be readily disassembled into compact form for shipment, after which it can be readily and quickly reassembled as a complete smokers stand ready for use.

The invention may be carried out in other specific ways than that herein set forth without departing from the spirit and essential characteristics of the invention, and the present embodiment is therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not'restrictive, and all changes coming within the meaning and equivalency range of the appended claim are intended to be embraced therein.

I claim:

A smokers stand including: a base; a tubular standard connected to and extending upward from said base and having its upper end split; an

ash-funnel having 9. depending ash-container Jul 30, 1935. SNYDER I 2,009,594

RAKE CLEANING ATTACHMENT Filed July 16, 1934 

